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Canada has now officially embarked on its own mini and small UAV deployment programme. Here, Major Roger Otis, Project Director of the Canadian Land Force family of UAVs, speaks with Richard de Silva about future land requirements for Canadian forces. He describes how mini and small UAVs

We caught up with Robert Young Pelton on his recent venture in Somalia. He describes the changing face of conflict reporting - and his work in building information gathering networks at the grass roots level. His new indigenous reporting network, Somalia Report, takes on the challenge of

Colonel Neale Moss is commander of the UK Attack Helicopter Force and, in this interview, he and his wingman, Major David Amlôt, talk about Apache helicopter armaments and their deployment in Afghanistan. Specifically, they address the small precision weapon class of ordnance

New operational concepts are increasingly requiring multinational forces to share tactical comms on many essential levels. Modern radios will meet a new standard, to include software defined radios - but other contingents will rely on older legacy systems. Existing national waveforms

Lieutenant General Dick Appglegate, British Army, is the former Chief of Materiel (Land) at DE&S (UK Defence Equipment and Support organisation) and was a member of the Army Board, having served as Quartermaster General. He was also the NATO sector commander in

Cyber commands, cyber and counter cyber activity, cyber strategy - this newest form of warfare is developing at such a rate as to nearly outpace the US military's ability to understand it. US Air Force Colonel David Fahrenkrug is the Director of the United States Strategic Studies

Defence IQ had the privilege of speaking with John Bumgarner, Chief Technical Officer of the US Cyber Consequences Unit, a non profit research organisation dedicated to studying economic and strategic impacts of cyber warfare. John boasts a wealth of experience in this area and

Featured in this interview is US Navy Commander Adam Scott, who is a platform coordinator at VX-20 Air Test and Evaluation Squadron in Pax River, Maryland. Included in his remit are the E-6 Mercury, T-6 Texan and the T-34 Mentor, and this discussion zeroes in on E-6B TACAMO

Unmanned systems are quickly making the circuit among civilian agencies. NASA is a prime example of a major research organisation that is moving away from satellite systems in earth remote sensing. Sensor packages can be customised per each UAS platform and NASA operates

Lieutenant General Johan Kihl is the Former Chief of Staff for the Swedish Armed Forces. He has been instrumental in introducing 'Network Enabled Capability' into the Armed Forces and has served as the Head of Long Term Planning, Deputy Director of the Joint Forces Directorate

Colonel Barbara Jones is the Squadron Commander for the US Air Force's 43rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron. Her unit responds to natural disasters at home and abroad, and also transports casualties from the front line to higher levels of care. This

John Bumgarner is the Chief Technology Officer for the US Cyber Consequences Unit , an independent research unit focused intently on the strategic and economic effects of cyber-attacks and cyber-assisted physical attacks. John extracts the cyber thread in recent

Combined arms simulation and training are proving increasingly vital to European armies looking to field new crews in existing armoured vehicle platforms. Captain Chris Lukose of the Royal Netherlands Army speaks with our own Rich de Silva about how this

David Bailey joins us in the New Year to pass along some of his thoughts on how he sees social media progressing on the NATO front. Here, he is moments away from addressing the future generation of information operations specialists at the NATO school in Oberammergau, Germany. The

Joint forces exercises are an incredibly critical key to successfully integrating air and land combat components, as well as joining multi national units in a single dynamic arena. In this interview, Major Kirk 'Rambo' Soroka of the Canadian Air Force addresses the